The process of archiving materials, including selection, acquisition, and physical preparation for long-term storage and access. If you have a question about archives as institutions or that would usually occur only in the context of an archive, use [tag:archives].
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Digital preservation: questions of format and volume for a digital photography collection
Our archives has been offered over 15TB of digital photography, which we are motivated to take. Here are some of the pertinent details:
The files consistently include two versions of every image:
A ...
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Good Encoded Archival Description (EAD) books, tutorials, boilerplate?
I'm a beginner when it comes to EAD (had a metadata design studio class in grad school where we modelled EAD in SKOS/XML), but I'm looking at starting the archivist certification process and I'm ...
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How do libraries approach the challenge of deciding what items are worth preserving?
Are there any agreed policies or standards in the area of deciding what items are worth preserving? Items that seem mundane, like old catalogs, may prove useful for economists to track how prices, and ...
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How are articles from news websites like Yahoo News, CNN, and Reuters catalogued and archived?
There are a lot of online-only articles on places like Yahoo News and Reuters, and they often get deleted after some period of time. This creates A LOT of dead links on the references section of ...
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What happens to the private archives of old professors once they retire or die? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What policies/practices do research libraries have for collecting faculty members' personal papers and research materials?
One physics professor at the University of ...
